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ROE ETHRIDGE

Biography

Roe Ethridge (American, born 1969) takes equally from his work as a commercial photographer, and artist. Blurring the lines that separate the two, Ethridge creates images that are simultaneously generic and intimate, often treading between humor and cynicism. Functioning in tandem, these motivations coalesce into an ongoing investigation into the mechanics of photographs, and their ability to both retreat into the personal, and expand to relay collective experiences.

Roe Ethridge's eleventh exhibition with the gallery, Shore Front Parkway, is currently on view and accompanied by a new catalog of the same title. Earlier this year, 10 Corso Como, Milan presented a survey exhibition of Ethridge’s work titled Happy Birthday Louise Parker, curated by Alessandro Rabottini. In 2022, Mack Books published AMERICAN POLYCHRONIC, the most comprehensive catalog of Ethridge’s work to date. His work was also featured in Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2022. Additionally, he participated in New Visions, Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Høvikodden, Norway, 2020. From 2016 to 2017, the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati hosted the first comprehensive survey of Ethridge’s work in the United States, titled Roe Ethridge: Nearest Neighbor. Other solo exhibitions include Shelter Island at Foam, Amsterdam, 2016, and Roe Ethridge, curated by Anne Pontégnie, at Le Consortium in Dijon, France, 2012, which traveled to Museum Leuven in Belgium later that year.

Ethridge’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Tate Modern, London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

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